Nord
[Rederiaktiebolaget Nord]

Ivan Sache, 23 April 2008

Lloyd's Book of House Flags and Funnels (1912)
[1]
shows the house flag of "Rederiaktiebolaget Nord" (#294, p. 50), a company based in Stockholm,
as divided blue-red by a descending diagonal and charged with a white "N"
in the red part and with a white star in the blue part.Ivan Sache, 23 April 2008

Nordic
[Rederi A/B Nordic]

The company appears to have ceased operations in
the mid 1970s. However Brown, 1978 and 1982 [3], shows a flag of 3 blue and
2 white horizontal bands with the middle blue broken by white with this
bearing a blue "N" with the connection, if any, not known.Neale Rosanoski, 5 August 2003

Nordö Link

image by Jorge Candeias

image by Jarig Bakker

images contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006

Originally the company was known as Rederi A/B Nordö, with the blue swallowtail
and yellow cross couped, being bought by Rederi A/B Sea-Link c.1986
who reorganized it as Rederi A/B Nordö-Link under which name it still
operates although now owned since 2002 by Finnlines Oyj. The new flag
as shown by Jorg may have been black but the table flag shown on the
Nüsse site[5] is definitely dark blue blue and this is supported by the
logo on the company website [see se~n510] although there
is another variation offered by the kommandobryggan website which
dispenses with the top and bottom bands and shows a black circle but
with the outer lines of the "N" being blue [see n512]. For a brief period between 1992 and 1994 the company ran
the Euroway service but it ceased due to being uneconomic. As shown by
the Nüsse site there was a flag of a vertical blue oblong bearing a
large white "E" under an arc of 5 yellow stars [see e94]. Not the normal shape for a sea flag so it
may have been for shoreside purposes only.Neale Rosanoski, 2 November 2006

Nordship Group

image by Jarig Bakker, 24 October 2005Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of Shipping Companies of the
World [4]

Nordship operates first of all The Baltic with cargos containing
principally steel, biomass fuels and forest products.

Rederi AB Nordship is part of the group Engco Invest AB situated in
Gävle. Other companies that are part of this group are the ship broker
companies AB P J Haegerstrands and Stefan Trybom AB in Gävle, plus HML
Shipping AB, Söderhamn Shipping AB in Söderhamn and Ivar Lundh & Co AB in
Stockholm.

Phil Nelson, 25 December 2005

The name originated in 1976 when a pool of 8 small
Swedish shipping companies formed to compete with the German and Dutch
companies that dominated the Baltic and North Sea trades. The ships
are noted as sailing under a common flag and this is no doubt the
source for the reference in Brown. The pool appears to have been
initiated by Stefan Trybom A/B and in 1985 Jacob Engwall, a member of
the pool, gained control of Trybom and was in turn succeeded by his
son Torsten who in 1988 was behind the founding of Engco Invest A/B
who became full owners of Stefan Trybom A/B and another Gävle company,
A/B P.J. Haegerstrand. In the 1990s the operation of the Nordship pool
came under Stefan Trybom A/B and this no doubt explains why the flag
is shown on the Josef Nüsse [5] site under that name. Then in 2001 Rederi
A/B Nordship was formed being controlled by Engco Invest A/B though
Trybom were still involved as managers for part of the fleet until
around the end of 2004. As noted the upward stroke of the
"N" ends in an arrowhead and in fact, as shown by both the website and
Nüsse, the letter is far broader than the Brown depiction.

Affiliate: P.J. Haegerstrand

The associate company A/B P.J. Haegerstrand, formed in 1859 and one of
the oldest companies in Gävle, was also involved in its early days in
ship owning. The flag appears as a logo on the company site
(www.haegerstrands.se) being blue with a gold horizontal oval bearing
the black [they look black to me but there is a chance that they are
also dark blue like the flag field] letters "PJH" with the flag being flown
by the sailing ship "Peru" which is shown in their gallery of their historic vessels.Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006
image in this post contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 8 July 2006

Norman & Nilsson

image contributed by Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007

Given by Collectors Corner as based in Stockholm,
nothing has been traced. The flag from the cap badge is white with a
blue circle bearing the gold letters "N&N" with the "&" being shorter
and the outer leg of the "N"s curved in line with the circle.Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007

Norrsken

image by António Martins-Tuválkin, 16 October 2010

Rederi AB Norrsken is a Swedish tourist shipping company organizing trips in the
neighbourhood of Stockholm and the famous archipelago nearby. Seat is Stocksund
to the North of Stockholm; the name means "northern light" or "aurora
borealis". Website, Swedish only: http://www.norrsken.org/.

Via Google Translate we learn that the firm was founded in 1991 and indeed
caters for tourists wanting to discover the many waterways and maritime corners
of the region. This includes tours with a steamer, bringing private passengers
to their summer retreat on one of the islands, being involved in media events,
etc. but also technical assistance to sailers. Norrsken makes a point of
stressing ecological awareness and practices.

Shown as a drawing, the house flag is a very Danish-looking pennant: red with a
white cross throughout - which necessarily resembles the Scandinavian or Nordic
variety - and a white disk in the cross’s centre bearing a black initial "N"
(serifed).

Noås Industri A/B

Formed in 1968 by Ove Nordtröm and Sven Åström
though the latter left in 1975, the company apparently specializes in
water works and in the process has owned tugs and other small vessels
mainly through the subsidiary Noås Nordmuddring A/B. From photos on
the www.tugboatlars.se site the flag is black [or certainly a very
near colour] with a red logo.Neale Rosanoski, 2 July 2007

I have now found a photo [dated 2.4.2007] of one of the tugs flying a
[definitely] black flag with the full logo as shown on the funnel i.e.
the "L" shape being included [see se~n568a]. On the
original sighting [dated 8.5.2006] this addition is not included so it
seems that there is either more than one flag or there has been a
change. The positioning of the "L" shape on this flag seems to also be
at variance with the funnel logo i.e. the funnel shows the "L" forward
but the flag has it in the fly. But other tug funnels have the "L"
placed aft which is then in line with this flag.Neale Rosanoski, 28 December 2008

NYKLauritzenCool A/B

Headquartered in Stockholm this company started 2001 as
LauritzenCool A/B as a partnership of Lauritzen Reefers of Denmark and
Cool Carriers A/B of Sweden. The original flag taken from the Josef
Nüsse [5] table flag was white with their blue and red symbol in the upper
hoist and below this across the centre of the flag the legend
"LauritzenCool" in red and blue. In 2005
NYK Reefers joined the partnership which became NYKLauritzenCool A/B.
The new flag, confirmed by a photo being flown by the "River Phoenix"
3/2006, is white with the symbol now larger and placed centrally with
below it the new name "NYKLauritzenCool" in blue, red, and blue. The table flag version is double sided but the
ship flag is only one sided so possibly the former flag, if flown at
sea, was the same.Neale Rosanoski, 12 March 2007